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Reporting Extraordinary

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  • Title: Reporting Extraordinary
  • Date: 17 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00958
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 17 February 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Francesca Boston Jason Stacy Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Reporting Extraordinary." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00958.xml (TEI)
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REPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.—

Our venerable contemporary, the Star, woke from a protracted slumber yesterday, and gave the world of journalism a proof of unexampled enterprise. The funeral of Mr. Simonson , which took place between three and four o’clock P.M., we find fully reported in that lively sheet, which goes to press about 2 o’clock P.M.—the latter having doubtless received the details by spiritual telegraph, or some other equally expeditious mode of transit. Unluckily for the Star, it ventured to state on the said dubious authority that the Board of Supervisors, out of respect to the memory of deceased, met and immediately adjourned, on the motion of Supervisor Jerome—the fact, however, being that the Board transacted the usual amount of business, as our own columns testify, and Mr. Jerome was not present at all. Our friends of the Star do not often make such a splurge and it is only fair to give them credit when they exert themselves.

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